Maxime Bernier Quotes

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.

Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

We are a nation of laws.

The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.

All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.

It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

The submission of free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.

The purpose of a written constitution is to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.

The Supreme Court is our ultimate check and balance.

People must live with the laws that we make.

Unless the courts have the power to review the legislative and executive decisions of the nation, we do not have the rule of law… If we don’t follow our own rules, our own Constitution, then, my God, what are we fighting for?

Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.